People stand outside the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall on Sugar Grove Road Thursday afternoon as union members working at Anchor Hocking vote on concessions to EveryWare Global.

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The local Anchor Hocking plant will reopen Monday after the Fourth of July holiday weekend closing. But its sister plant in Monaca, Pennsylvania, will close, executive council president and U.S. Steelworkers Local 561 chairman Chris Nagle said Thursday.

The local workers agreed to accept concessions in a union vote, but their brethren at the Pennsylvania plant rejected them by a wider margin.

Lancaster union members voted 298-244 to approve concessions, including a 7 percent pay cut and elimination of a company 401(k) match. However, workers in the Monaca plant voted 186-67 to reject ...